General Modern Collection
A volume collecting all 108 parts of an serial published in France, 1933-1935 featuring a hero named Tintin . . .
who has many adventures, including firing a gun while hanging by a rope:
November 12, 2007
Guy Debord's Guide psychogeographique de Paris [1957].
For a scalable version go here: http://brbl-media.library.yale.edu/PATREQIMG/sids/D0987/1044447.sid
November 5, 2007
A collection of death masks in the Beinecke Library.
[NOTE: Updated 11-2-07. See below.]
H. D. [1886-1961] http://www.imagists.org/hd/
October 30, 2007
German banknotes designed by Herbert Bayer, 1923
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notgeld
and: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5373/notgeld.htm
and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Bayer
October 25, 2007
Die Inselwoche, a hectographed newspaper issued by German prisoners of war in an internment camp on Ile Longue, an island off of Brest in France, 1914-1919.
Complete with advertisements:
October 22, 2007
A group of French finger shadow puppets from World War I depicting combatants from many sides, along with requisite tools of engagement: gun, sword, bottles of booze.
[Click to enlarge]
In action:
October 9, 2007
. . . (the city, the airport)
Two poems by Aram Saroyan
from Sled Hill Voices, Goliard Press, 1966.
October 5, 2007
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